Mao's America
Book description
Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years later, Xi disturbingly sees…
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Mao's America is written by a Chinese lady who lived through Mao's Revolution beginning to end. As a college student after Mao she had the opportunity to come to America. She did, stayed, married, raised a family and lived happily ever after in Virginia. That is until 2020 when she discovered she was living in Mao's revolution inside America. She was a homemaker, had never spoken in public but went to a city council meeting to express her feelings on recent woke decisions they had made. They made it hard on her but she persisted and the public gave her…
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